Viewing The Progress Of A Backup; About Setting A Compression Level For Drive-Based Backups - Symantec GHOST 14 Manual

72 Backing up entire drives

About setting a compression level for drive-based backups

Viewing the progress of a backup

About setting a compression level for drive-based
backups
You can view the progress of a backup while it runs to determine how much time
remains until the backup completes.
To view the progress of a backup
While a backup is running, on the View menu, click Progress and
Performance.
During the creation of a recovery point, compression results may vary, depending
on the types of files saved to the drive you are backing up.
Table 6-3 describes the available compression levels.
Compression levels
Table 6-3
Compression level
None
Standard (recommended)
Medium
High
Description
Use this option if storage space is not an issue. However, if
the backup is being saved to a busy network drive, high
compression may be faster than no compression because
there is less data to write across the network.
This option uses low compression for a 40 percent average
data compression ratio on recovery points. This setting is
the default.
This option uses medium compression for a 45 precent
average data compression ratio on recovery points.
This option uses high compression for a 50 percent average
data compression ratio on recovery points. This setting is
usually the slowest method.
When a high compression recovery point is created, CPU
usage might be higher than normal. Other processes on the
computer might also be slower. To compensate, you can
adjust the operation speed of Norton Ghost. This might
improve the performance of other resource-intensive
applications that you are running at the same time.